[evaporation-plus]

>Market breadth was positive by 19 to 12 on
>the big board and 19 to 15 on the Nasdaq.

Love the report, but I believe the breadth was
negative, and the numbers were correct, NO?

Early in the afternoon, when the index's started to
go green, declines outnumbered advances by 2 to 1 on
both exchanges. The fix was in.......

[arete]

Nice catch. You are right. NYSE advancing 1215 with 52 new highs. NYSE declining 1903 with 188 new lows. For the rest of the stats, go here:

Market Internals @ bigcharts.com

They are propping up the big index issues and trashing everything else right now. Today was a down day but not how the headlines read.

Richard W.